Summer is the season when everything flourishes and the sunshine is the strongest. In this season, light and heat provide energy for the growth of all things, but they are also evil "fire demons", bringing unbearable heat to people. At this time, the yang of the human body is the easiest to dissipate, so it is particularly important to make yourself calm and arrange your diet and daily life reasonably to nourish the yang.

Summer is very hot and rainy, people's phlegm is released, and the evil of summer dampness is the easiest to enter. Therefore, we should pay attention to heatstroke prevention and dampness elimination in this season.

Due to the hot weather in summer, it is advisable to go to bed late and get up early in daily life, and the heat is the highest at noon, so it is advisable to take a nap to escape the heat. In addition, the climate is humid at this time, which is the season for all kinds of bacteria and viruses to breed, and it is easy to produce skin allergies or respiratory diseases. Therefore, eliminating dampness and heat in the body and keeping the environment clean are two major principles to prevent allergies and respiratory diseases. Chinese medicine believes that summer is the season of heart, spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to maintaining the mind and spleen and stomach in summer. For maintaining the spleen and stomach, you can eat more yellow-green vegetables, such as pumpkins; The heart "governs the blood", which is difficult to cope with the summer heat and easy to breed dryness and heat. In order to avoid unhealthy emotions caused by excessive heart fire and damage to the heart, blood circulation and digestive system, it is best to exercise properly in summer and get close to nature. In addition, in order to maintain the heart and blood circulation system, we should eat more red fruits and vegetables in our diet, such as tomatoes and amaranth.

Recommended medicated diet: chicken and coconut balls.

Ingredients: coconut 1, chicken breast, lotus seeds, ginkgo, milk and lotus root starch.

Method: Chop the chicken breast into minced meat, add lotus root starch and refined salt and mix well into balls. Wash lotus seeds and ginkgo, and fry in oil pan until half cooked. Add salt, ginger slices and cooking wine to the chicken soup and cook for later use. Dig the top of the coconut, remove the pulp, add chicken balls, lotus seeds, ginkgo, chicken soup and a little milk, cover the top, and stew in water until the chicken balls are cooked.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and heart, invigorating spleen and appetizing.